London’s First Metropolitan Police Women
Female police officers weren’t a common occurrence until 1919, when the formation of all-female police patrols in the city of London were normalized. The National Union of Women Workers was given a contract for a year to see if they could do the job the way men could. But they didn’t get the power to make arrests. Today, it would be a huge violation of human rights and equality, but back then, it was leaps and bounds ahead of what women were “allowed” to do. So in December of 1922, after the year was up, 50 female officers were sworn in, with the same authority their male counterparts had.
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